Greece Quotes - Page 3

• As long as I feel I am doing what I think is right and just for my country, for the Greek people, that is enough for me. Saving Greece from this crisis was the first thing on the agenda. We are now on a much more normalised road.

  George Papandreou

  Country, Thinking, Long

  "Reinvigorating Greece is an Olympian task for prime minister Papandreou". Interview With Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2010.

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• Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also carry infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe through Italy and France, already threatened by the strongest domestic Communist parties in Western Europe. The Soviet Union was playing one of the greatest gambles in history at minimal cost. It did not need to will all the possibilities. Even one or two offered immense gains. We and we alone were in a position to break up the play.

  Dean Acheson

  War, Party, Two

  "Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department". Book by Dean Acheson, 1969.

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• First of all, Greece won't go down. We're talking about a country that is capable of making change. Europe will not allow the destabilization of the 27-country euro zone. But if there were no action, then markets would start becoming jittery about other countries - and not only Spain and Portugal, but other countries in the European Union.

  George Papandreou

  Country, Talking, Europe

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• Ryanair brings lots of different cultures to the beaches of Spain, Greece and Italy, where they couple and copulate in the interests of pan-European peace.

  Michael O'Leary

  Beach, Couple, Spain

  "The Saturday interview: Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2011.

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• The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.

  Anaxagoras

  Science, Stones, Littles

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• Greeks have to know that they are not alone ... Those who are fighting for the survivor of Greece inside the Euro area are deeply harmed by the impression floating around in the Greek public opinion that Greece is a victim. Greece is a member of the EU and the euro. I want Greece to be a constructive member of the Union because the EU is also benefiting from Greece.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Fighting, Greek, Public Opinion

  Source: marketnews.com

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• At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Atheist, Kings, Believe

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Roger Ingpen, Walter Edwin Peck (1965). “Complete Works: Newly Edited by Roger Ingpen and Walter E. Peck”

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• If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.

  George Papandreou

  Country, Struggle, Political

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• One of the big problems in America's economic polarization and shrinkage is that pensions can't be paid. So there are going to be defaults on pensions here, just like Europeans are insisting in rolling back pensions. You can look at Greece and Argentina as the future of America.

  Michael Hudson

  America, Rolling, Argentina

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The situation in Greece just goes from bad to worse. We’ve now got a situation where there was the big suicide a few weeks ago, where a 77-year-old man shot himself in the head outside the Greek Parliament. That was the public face of what’s gone wrong.

  Nigel Farage

  Suicide, Men, Years

  "On the edge of social breakdown". UK Independence Party Website, May 31, 2012.

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• The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Greek, Want, Camps

  Source: marketnews.com

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• The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.

  Barry Eichengreen

  Country, Wrath, Spain

  "Unity of the European Union is about to be tested" by Barry Eichengreen, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment.

  David Gemmell

  Simple, Views, Evil

  "No shades of grey" by David Gemmell, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2003.

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• I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the standard of living there isn't higher than it is in Germany. Second, Greece is paying a high price for European assistance.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Vacation, Germany, Firsts

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• What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Power, Volcanoes, Egypt

  Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1978). “Autobiography of values”, Harcourt

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• A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.

  David Bonderman

  Would Be, Portugal, Default

  "TPG's Bonderman Sees Mega LBO Coming - $10-15B Deal". SuperReturn conference in Berlin, www.businessinsider.com. March 04, 2011.

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• And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?

  Melina Mercouri

  Greek, Invasion, Subjugation

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• Greece is not a country that can be humiliated. It is a matter of finding an intersection between the reasonable elements of both sides [EU and Greece] which has to be done.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Country, Elements, Done

  Source: marketnews.com

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• The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse.

  James Chanos

  Children, Thinking, Play

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• As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China.

  Marc Faber

  Meaningful, Europe, Issues

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• I would say we are a friend in need and I am sure that the Greek people would very much welcome the choice of the British people to come and enjoy Greece, first of all, but also that would be a sign of support.

  George Papandreou

  People, Support, Choices

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• Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

  Mary Stewart

  Party, Two, Political

  Mary Stewart (2011). “This Rough Magic”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• Greece's debts are all denominated in euros, but it isn't clear who holds how much of those debts. For that reason, the consequences of a national bankruptcy would be incalculable. Greece is just as systemically important as a major bank.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Important, Would Be, Debt

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We are living in the era of the busybody. In ancient Greece, if a person wanted guidance, it involved a long, arduous expensive journey to consult the oracle at Delphi. Today, if you want guidance, all you have to do is unplug your ears.

  Margo Kaufman

  Journey, Long, Advice

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• When I went to Japan I sang in Japanese; when I went to Greece I sang in Greek. When I went to Spain, I sang in Spanish. I couldn't speak it very well, but I sang, I was beautiful in singing it. These things just constantly attracted people to the uniqueness of who I was and the way in which I performed.

  Harry Belafonte

  Beautiful, Japan, People

  "Actor-activist Harry Belafonte, Part 2". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. December 1, 2011.

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